its all about experience, experience, experience, heck....the airlines shouldn't let any pilot be in control of an airplane until he's got atleast 5000 hrs....by then, he'll have enough experience to get him through the tought stuff....

quick question though - at what point does the experience cutoff begin? meaning, you can do all the flying you want to in light twins and singles and gain experience to make you a better pilot, however, there will come a time, when you've got as much as you can from light aircraft, and now are going to start flying a pressurized fly-by-wire jet that's at 40,000 feet, the only way you'll get expeirence doing that is by :doing that(flying).

Another note, if you're trying to make safe airline pilots, wouldn't it make more sense to hire a guy w/ 250 hrs? Hes young, leanring, and will gain the necessary experience in the airplane....and a year from then, he'd actually have more high performance jet experience than the guy who built an extra 750 hrs...